Lillian Gish
ActingLillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation (1915). Her sound-era film appearances were sporadic, but included memorable roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the offbeat thriller Night of the Hunter (1955). She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August. The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time. She was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1971, and in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.
Known For
The Night of the Hunter
Rachel Cooper
Duel in the Sun
Laura Belle McCanles
The Unforgiven
Mattilda Zachary
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
A Wedding
Nettie Sloan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs Loftus
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Filmography — Acting
The Night of the Hunter
Rachel Cooper
Duel in the Sun
Laura Belle McCanles
The Unforgiven
Mattilda Zachary
The Birth of a Nation
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
A Wedding
Nettie Sloan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs Loftus
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
Follow Me, Boys!
Hetty Seibert
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Lucy Burrows
The Cobweb
Victoria Inch
Sweet Liberty
Cecelia Burgess
The Whales of August
Sarah Webber
The Wind
Letty
Orphans of the Storm
Henriette Girard
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Mrs. Smith (archive footage) (uncredited)
Portrait of Jennie
Mother Mary of Mercy
So Near, Yet So Far
A Friend
Hambone and Hillie
Hillie Radcliffe
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Little Lady
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Mrs. Bergesen
Warning Shot
Alice Willows
The Comedians
Mrs. Smith
Top Man
Beth Warren
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Orders to Kill
Mrs. Summers
Judith of Bethulia
The Young Mother
The Comedians in Africa
Self (uncredited)
The Battle of the Sexes
Jane Andrews, the daughter
The Trip to Bountiful
Carrie Watts
My Baby
Thin Ice
Grandmother
The Enemy
Pauli Arndt
The Lady and the Mouse
The First Sister
Romola
Romola
Annie Laurie
Annie Laurie
A Woman in the Ultimate
Verda
La Bohème
Mimi
Miss Susie Slagle's
Miss Susie Slagle
The Folly of Anne
Anne
Twin Detectives
Billy Jo Haskins
Way Down East
Anna Moore
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Melissa Harlow
The Great Love
Susie Broadplains
His Lesson
Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)
The New York Hat
Customer in Shop / Outside Church
True Heart Susie
Susie May Trueheart
Arsenic and Old Lace
Martha Brewster
Langlois
Self
Brutality
At Theatre
Hearts of the World
The Girl - Marie Stephenson
An Unseen Enemy
Eldest Sister
The White Sister
Angela Chiaromonte
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Hobson's Choice
Miss Molly Winkle
Home, Sweet Home
Payne's Sweetheart
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Self (archive footage)
Just Gold
The First Brother's Sweetheart
Souls Triumphant
Lillian Vale
The Spiral Staircase
Mrs. Warren
A Misunderstood Boy
The Daughter
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Birthday Wellwisher
The Mothering Heart
The Wife
I Am Not a Racist
Elsie (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Sisters
May
One Romantic Night
Princess Alexandra
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
A Cry for Help
The Maid
An Innocent Magdalene
Dorothy Raleigh
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
The Left-Handed Man
The Old Soldier's Daughter
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Self
The Lily and the Rose
Mary Randolph
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Herself, Archive footage
Two Daughters of Eve
In Theatre Crowd
The Informer
Walk on role
In the Aisles of the Wild
The Younger Daughter
A Modest Hero
The Wife
The Greatest Thing in Life
Jeannette Peret
The Green-Eyed Devil
Mary Miller
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
A Romance of Happy Valley
Jennie Timberlake
The Lost House
Dosia Dale
Madonna of the Storm
The Mother
So Runs the Way
Fred's Wife
The House of Darkness
The Nurse
Early Directors on Directing
Self
The Painted Lady
Belle at Ice Cream Festival
The House Built Upon Sand
Evelyn Dare
The One She Loved
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Herself
Film Fun
(archive footage)
The Little Tease
Girl in bandana
The Unwelcome Guest
At Auction (uncredited)
The Great Chase
The Flapper
(archive footage)
The Blue or the Gray
The Greatest Question
Nellie Jarvis
Gold and Glitter
The Young Woman
Lord Chumley
Eleanor Butterworth
An Indian's Loyalty
The Ranchero's Daughter
Oil and Water
In First Audience (uncredited)
His Double Life
Alice Chalice
The Quicksands
Pathways of Life
Daphne and the Pirate
Daphne La Tour
The Tear That Burned
Anita - the Truant
Night Hunter
A Timely Interception
The Farmer's Daughter
Man's Enemy
Grace Lisle
Enoch Arden
Annie Lee
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
The Rugmaker's Daughter
Lillian Gish
Self
The Angel of Contention
Nettie - the Angel
The Stolen Bride
Sold for Marriage
Marfa
The Children Pay
Millicent
The Hunchback
The Orphan - as an Adult
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
Kitty Belle
Mrs. Winchester's House
Narrator
Diane of the Follies
Diane
A Duel for Love
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
Captain Macklin
Beatrice
During the Round-Up
The Ranchero's Daughter
From Farm to Fame
Lillian Gish
